Jeremy Hunt
The Cabinet reshuffle that exploded in Theresa May’s face
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, tried to shuffle her cabinet, but Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, refused to become…
The Cabinet reshuffle highlighted Theresa May’s three great weaknesses
‘They are not as strong as they thought they were,’ one Whitehall source remarked to me on Monday night as…
I used to back Jeremy Hunt’s digital NHS plan. Now I know it’s a disaster
My baby and I excel at blood tests. He (tiny, jaundiced) stretches out naked under the hospital’s hot cot-lamps like…
Emma Thompson’s wrong about the EU and cake
At first glance, Emma Thompson’s intervention in the Brexit debate earlier this week didn’t make much sense. Asked at the…
Any deal with the junior doctors should cut both ways
A few months ago, paramedics were on the brink of industrial action. They had legitimate grievances. Ambulance services were being…
Striking doctors need an injection of realism
Treatment for that once-virulent condition, the British disease of strikes, has largely been successful. The number of working days lost…
Jeremy Hunt is spoiling for a fight. He’s picked the wrong one
Jeremy Hunt is right to fight for NHS reform. But he’s going after the wrong people, on the wrong issue
I’m a junior doctor and I used to trust the Tories. Not any more
Like many of my fellow junior doctors, I trusted a Conservative government with the NHS. If it’s to stay strong…
So the near collapse of A&Es around the country is all my fault?
Oh, I see. So it’s my fault. There I was, thinking that the general swamping and near collapse of accident…
The fascinating history of dullness
At least I’ve got my husband’s Christmas present sorted out: the Dull Men of Great Britain calendar. It is no…
Revealed: The hidden crisis in Britain's ambulance services
Britain’s ambulance services are in crisis. When will the government notice?
What the NHS owes the Tories
Pinned to the wall of Jeremy Hunt’s office in the Department of Health is an A1 piece of paper detailing…
I got a call from Jeremy Hunt about health tourism — but he still doesn't get it
Ministers are finally acting on my warnings about health tourism. But they aren’t doing enough
The wrong way to fix the NHS
A senior surgeon says Jeremy Hunt’s NHS reforms will do more harm than good